Citizen science as an approach for responding to the threat of anopheles stephensi in Africa

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• dc.contributor.author Carney, Ryan M.
• dc.contributor.author Long, Alex
• dc.contributor.author Low, Russanne D.
• dc.contributor.author Zohdy, Sarah
• dc.contributor.author Palmer, John R. B.
• dc.contributor.author Elias, Peter
• dc.contributor.author Bartumeus, Frederic
• dc.contributor.author Njoroge, Laban
• dc.contributor.author Muniafu, Maina
• dc.contributor.author Uelmen, Johnny A.
• dc.contributor.author Rahola, Nil
• dc.contributor.author Chellappan, Sriram
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-04-22T06:21:26Z
• dc.date.available 2024-04-22T06:21:26Z
• dc.date.issued 2023
• dc.description.abstract Even as novel technologies emerge and medicines advance, pathogen-transmitting mosquitoes pose a deadly and accelerating public health threat. Detecting and mitigating the spread of Anopheles stephensi in Africa is now critical to the fight against malaria, as this invasive mosquito poses urgent and unprecedented risks to the continent. Unlike typical African vectors of malaria, An. stephensi breeds in both natural and artificial water reservoirs, and flourishes in urban environments. With An. stephensi beginning to take hold in heavily populated settings, citizen science surveillance supported by novel artificial intelligence (AI) technologies may offer impactful opportunities to guide public health decisions and community-based interventions. Coalitions like the Global Mosquito Alert Consortium (GMAC) and our freely available digital products can be incorporated into enhanced surveillance of An. stephensi and other vector-borne public health threats. By connecting local citizen science networks with global databases that are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR), we are leveraging a powerful suite of tools and infrastructure for the early detection of, and rapid response to, (re)emerging vectors and diseases.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-2014547 (R.M.C., S.C., R.D.L.). Additional financial support for this study was provided by the US President’s Malaria Initiative. We thank Landon Van Dyke from the US Department of State for fundamental contributions to the GMOD. The GLOBE Observer app and citizen science programming are supported through National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) cooperative agreement NNX16AE28A to the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) for the NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative (NESEC, PI: Theresa Schwerin). F.B. and J.R.B.P. acknowledge funding from: (a) the European Commission, under Grants CA17108 (AIM-COST Action), 874735 (VEO), 853271 (H-MIP), and 2020/2094 (NextGenerationEU, through CSIC’s Global Health Platform, PTI Salud Global); (b) the Dutch National Research Agenda (NWA), under Grant NWA/00686468; and (c) “la Caixa” Foundation, under Grant HR19-00336.
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• dc.identifier.citation Carney RM, Long A, Low RD, Zohdy S, Palmer JRB, Elias P, et al. Citizen science as an approach for responding to the threat of anopheles stephensi in Africa. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice. 2023 Oct 17;8(1):60. DOI: 10.5334/cstp.616
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/cstp.616
• dc.identifier.issn 2057-4991
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59858
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Ubiquity Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Citizen Science: Theory and Practice. 2023 Oct 17;8(1):60
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/874735
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/853271
• dc.rights © 2023 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by Ubiquity Press.
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Africa
• dc.subject.keyword Anopheles stephensi
• dc.subject.keyword Artificial intelligence
• dc.subject.keyword Citizen science
• dc.subject.keyword Malaria
• dc.subject.keyword Mosquito
• dc.title Citizen science as an approach for responding to the threat of anopheles stephensi in Africa
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